Despite having eaten only one banana in my entire life (I was nine when my life-long hate started), I do tend to get a bit gooey for banana bread. While my husband might keep the banana brokers in business, he often buys more than he can chew at once. The ones he doesn’t manage to stuff into his maw before they turn brown end up inour freezer where they shrivel, turn black and get baked into banana bread. Not a bad life-cycle, I think. One of the most repeated recipes in my kitchen is this wonderful cinnamon and chocolate banana bread but sometimes one needs to shake it up a little.

This banana bread is a delicious one and it has a wonderful pedigree – it comes from the Baked cookbook which has given my kitchen so much wonderful baked bounty in the past. This recipe is no exception. The original recipe makes muffins but I decided to go with a loaf pan instead. Also, the recipe easily doubles and freezes well in case you want to get all your baking done at once.

Chocolate and espresso? Oh yeah! This is a great banana bread to wake up to in the morning as it pairs so nicely with a good hot coffee. If you are a walnut-hater (and a surprising amount of you are), then just replace the walnuts with more chocolate chips and you can’t go wrong.

In a large bowl, mix together the bananas, sugars, butter, milk and egg. In another bowl, combine the flour, espresso powder, baking soda and salt. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips & walnuts.

Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake for about 55 minutes, or until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool in a pan for 15 minutes and then invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Not gonna lie, I’m totally not a banana fan as well but we ALWAYS have bananas that are about to go bad around here…and I am always trying to find new banana bread recipes! Love that this has both espresso AND chocolate. Can’t go wrong there.

At first I was like, what? Only one banana in your life ever? And then I realized that I might have the same issue: I cannot hang with the texture! But I love them in baked goods and I cannot even begin to express how intensely I’d like a slice of that right now.

Oooh! This sounds perfect for breakfast with a cup of coffee! Are there really walnut haters out there?! That is just unheard of in my house. I have a similar overabundance of bananas on a regular basis, so I’m always looking for something to do with them before they end up in the garbage! Mushy bananas are not my thing, so this looks like an awesome alternative.

I made this recipe today and let me tell you, it’s about the best banana bread I’ve ever had and/or made. I love this recipe!! It’ll work for comfort food, dessert, breakfast, snack and it’s soooo good. Thanks for posting this one!

I made these as muffins, but they just came out kind of blah. I thought I had a loaf pan but I don’t so I should remedy that situation. Also have you thought of Blackberry Banana Bread? It’s pretty awesome.

In searching for banana chocolate chip bread recipes, I bookmarked a few before finding yours. Seeing espresso made it an immediate winner. I just tasted a bit of batter, and my reaction was that it tastes like buttery heaven! I’m taking the bread to a bbq later, so I can’t wait to see what people think of my first ever attempt at banana bread.

I’m the opposite of you. I love bananas but don’t really like banana bread. Though it’s been a while since I made it and I’m not feeling the urge. I need to get some chocolate chips though! This one looks delicious.

Needed a recipe for the 4 bananas that had been sitting in my fridge for a week looking pretty sad and brown. I just couldn’t get myself to throw them out. Never made banana bread before and this recipe sounded yummy. And so it is! Made the bread yesterday and eating a piece as I am writing 🙂 Thanks!

I just made this recipe and I have to say its one of the best banana breads ive ever made i just changed the bananas, instead of using the normal bananas I used the small bananas their sweeter and richer 🙂